Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Mar 1998 19:33:43 +0100 (CET) | From | "Lorenzo M. Catucci" <> | Subject | Re: Strange hangs (me too!!!) |
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On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Hubert Mantel wrote:
> On 5 Mar 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > I've reported this to the XFree86 people but they apparently ignored > > the report. > > The XFree86 people apparently do not ignore bug reports. > > It is a known problem that starting the Matrox server on certain > motherboards can hang the system in about 5% of the cases. As of Feb 98 > the reason for this problem was still unknown. Not knowing how to solve a > problem does not mean ignoring it. > > Hubert > 1. Please, I think this thread should stop as soon as possible.
2. I don't want to revive the GGI one, but I think that, if really there are PCI stalls coming from X directly mangling the bus, they could really be a good reason to get something like GGI inside the kernel, instead of the suid root server which mangles the registers like it now does
3. I'm really unsure X is guilty, since I've never seen something like this before, and got two crashes in a line, both times after having done a diff between a SCSI CD-reader/writer used in read mode and the backed up directory
4. I'm not sure if this could help, but I can try and run an instrumented server, to log its start-up activity on the DAT tape after having done another diff, but I gave the writer to its owner, and I'm unsure if I'll be able to trigger the problem without it.
Now, I beg all of the readers' pardon, but I still think I had to reply to the list, since I started a thread (against my own will) which was perceived as mourning about XFree developers. For now, I'm not going to do other tests (and potentially wait for four long fsck) before I get an instrumented server, but I'm ready to change my mind, if you convince me.
In all fairness, I'd rather avoid doing tests in the week-end, since I rather prefer spending those days at home than here.
Yours,
lorenzo
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